Its possible though that if you start and stop playing a lot, they may multiply without your action, and may cause the game undue strain - 3-10 of them might lag themselves, but 40 of them might cause the game to take an hour to load into, and 20 more might crash the game on load

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100 of them might still only lag themselves. - who really knows, honestly, I find it just best to keep them in check after learning they duplicate. "better safe, than sorry"